Printing Instagram Photos from Your Phone (a How To)

Are you an Instagram fan? I think it was one of the first apps I downloaded when T and I bought iPhones. I love filling my Instagram feed with photos of shopping trips, tasty meals, flowers, pets, crazy kid stuff, and anything else I can snap. Even though my photos transfer automatically to my laptop (I don't know how; it's like magic), they just end up sitting there in a folder because I wasn't sure how to get them printed. Enter my friend Carmel from Our Fifth House. She recently shared about an awesome new app, and once I tried Printicular, I knew I had to share it with you guys!

One of the reasons I hadn't printed any of my phone pics was because many of the apps and online services I'd researched or seen on other blogs were pricey! As in, a dollar or more per picture...plus shipping. Um, no thank you. 

The first plus for Printicular was that it's a free app. I love me some free apps.

Ordering was as simple as opening the app and choosing which program I wanted to get photos from (Instagram, Facebook, flickr, Dropbox, Google+, Photo Library, Camera Roll, or my Photo Stream).

I click on each photo I want to print and add them to my shopping cart.

Then I put in the zipcode for the Walgreens location where I want to pick my photos up. Lucky for me, there's one a few miles from our house. The app sends me an email to let me know that my order is being processed and also when it's ready!

I sent 7 or 8 photos over to test, and I was pleased with the quality. The colors stayed true to the Instagram filters I used. No, there are no borders or fancy edgings like you might find online, but the prints were only $0.39 apiece, about what I pay for standard 4 x 6 photos.

And...drum roll, please...no shipping! I can pick them up when it's convenient for me. 

Printicular has no idea who I am, so this is not a sponsored post in any way. But I will most certainly be using their services again!

**I'm planning a post on Instagram Photo Displays. Do you have one? Leave a link in the comments section!

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